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Michael Moore Rallies Wisconsin Pro-Union Protesters

MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore is urging Wisconsin residents to fight Republican-backed efforts to strip most public workers of their collective bargaining rights.

Moore spoke to thousands of people during a rally Saturday outside the Wisconsin Capitol, where demonstrators are nearing their third straight week of protests.

The crowd roared in approval as Moore implored protesters to keep up their struggle against Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s legislation, comparing their fight to Egypt’s revolt.

Moore says the wealthy have overreached, first taking the working class’ money and then taking their souls by shutting them up at the bargaining table.

Walker has said the legislation is needed to help ease a state deficit projected to hit $3.6 billion by mid-2013. A Democratic senator says negotiations with the GOP broke down last this week.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP’s earlier story is below.

Negotiations have stalled in Wisconsin over Republican-backed efforts to strip most public workers from their collective bargaining rights, a Democratic lawmaker said Saturday as pro-union demonstrators neared their third straight week of protests at the state Capitol.

Sen. Tim Cullen said talks with Republicans broke down Thursday but communication lines remain open. Cullen said it’s difficult for either side to compromise, since Democrats don’t want to lose support from their base and Republican Gov. Scott Walker doesn’t want to appear weak by backing down.

Cullen was among the 14 Democratic senators who fled Wisconsin to block a vote on the bill, which Walker has said is needed to help ease a state budget deficit projected to hit $3.6 billion by mid-2013. Walker‘s spokesman didn’t return a message Saturday, though the governor has said that he won’t compromise on the collective bargaining issue or anything that saves the state money.

Two other senators who fled the state joined the Rev. Jesse Jackson in Chicago to urge Walker to negotiate with workers. Sen. Lena Taylor said Democrats left because they “needed to slow the bill down” after it was approved unchanged in the state Assembly.

“I ask the governor, ‘do your job. Come to the table and speak to Wisconsin workers.’ We agree that fiscally we need to do things differently. We even agree that there are some places where we need to talk about how we negotiate,” Taylor said. “However we refuse to accept in America that we don’t believe that a voice at the table is an option. It is not an option of a leader and it surely is not the Wisconsin way.”

Sen. Chris Larson urged protestors to stay strong.

“We‘ve been here for the last 16 days we’ll continue to be here until worker’s rights are removed as the target in this budget repair bill by our governor,” he said.

Opponents see Walker’s bill as an effort to weaken unions, and protests have drawn tens of thousands of people to Madison since activists began a sit-in at the Capitol nearly three weeks ago. A judge late last week ended protestors’ overnight stays, but several hundred were back in the rotunda Saturday afternoon chanting “Who’s house? Our house!“ and ”Hey-hey, ho-ho, Scott Walker’s got to go!”

Renee Peplinski, a fifth-grade teacher in Wisconsin Rapids, said she doesn’t mind making financial concessions to help the state even though it would hurt her family. She’s more concerned about losing her collective bargaining rights. Without union protections, teachers would be at the mercy of administrators who could decide to fire them for any perceived slight, she said.

“Every teacher I know is depressed,” said Peplinski, 42. “Every minute of the day there’s this black cloud.”

Outside, hundreds of people marched in the streets, banging drums and carrying signs that read “No one has ever died from overexposure to education” and “Worst bill ever.” Hundreds more waited to get into the Capitol.

Walker has said the bill is needed to ease a deficit that could hit $137 million by July and $3.6 billion by the middle of 2013. His proposal comes up with the money for this year in part by forcing state employees to pay for half the cost of their pensions and twice their current health care premiums—concessions equivalent to an 8 percent pay cut.

With the labor bill stalled, Walker said he has to issue layoff notices starting Friday so the state can start to realize the $30 million savings he had assumed would come from the concessions. The layoffs wouldn’t be effective for 31 days, and Walker said he could rescind them if the bill passed in the meantime.

All state workers, except those at prisons, state hospitals and other facilities open around the clock, would be potential layoff targets.

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  • TRONINTHEMORNING
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 6:20pm

    Big fat liar.

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  • Tea-Bone
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 6:19pm

    this guy makes me sick to my stomache.

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  • obama_binpharteen
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 6:15pm

    Someone needs to stick a fork in that fat pig. I want my baby back baby back baby back ribs…

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  • NHABE64
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 6:15pm

    This is no longer really about the CBA rights, its about communism, socialism, the workers parties,etc. Now we are seeing the REAL cockroaches coming out of the woodwork. Van Jones, Moore, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson. Civil unrest is the breeding ground of the socialist/communist movement and Obama and crew love it! Wisconsin is a beginning alright and guess what its also the beginning of identifying these radical treasonous rabble and washing them into the sewers they belong in. I truly hope we don’t end up in a civil between God fearing Christians who are patriotic towards America and scumsuckers like the ones mentioned above. But if it happens, so be it. Let the games begin, and yes WE THE PEOPLE the real American are going to win. BIG TIME!

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  • Hawke17
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 6:15pm

    I mean so what 61% said they were against taking away bargaining rights. Unions are evil. Esp those damn rich teachers. But the ones that really should be shown the door are the 1st responsers ….you know the people who clean up after accidents …. they are glorified jantiors and should be paid as such ….mininum wage ..thats all they deserve …. i am sick of using my inherited money cleaning up after these people …we should be like China …where the families have to pay for the bullets when people are put to death ….make the relatives clean up after accidents …..its about individual responsibiilty ……commie thugs

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    • Benbit
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 6:47pm

      tell you what, I’ll pay for yours, just trying to help..

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    • Benbit
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 6:51pm

      Tell you what, I‘ll pay for your’s. Just trying to help…..

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    • Freefromyou
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 7:21pm

      When a man can have the free choice to be in a union member or not is the day I will support a union. If it is so fundamentally important membership wouldn’t need to be manditory. Unionism is tyranny plan and simple. “Pay us or you can’t work here”. Sounds like coercion to me. Force by another name is still force. Even if it is for the sake of the childern.

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  • Toastery
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 6:15pm

    The moose Moore needs to go home!

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  • mcpbob
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 6:11pm

    the bowels of society are marching on wisconsin

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    • Hephzibah
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 1:42pm

      It’s easy to determine which position is illogical and unethical just by checking out who is supporting it. Seeing the litter that follows them around and hearing the filthy language that peppers their speech, one can tell a lot.

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  • Amazingoly
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 6:08pm

    Overweight jerk!

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  • spod
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 6:04pm

    He made it three blocks. Last seen entering a sub shop with no shoes but shirt on.

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  • ETOOL USMC RECON
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 6:04pm

    Did he ride that new blimp to Wi……..NO WAIT….HE IS THE BLINP.

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  • N37BU6
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 6:01pm

    Michael Moore… always there for the photo op. Snap some pictures at the “front lines” and then leave.

    Typo in the headline, BTW.

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  • parmajohn
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 6:01pm

    In Ohio the govenor won by a majority of the peoples vote I assume it works that way thru out our country Thats why Christi won and all the others that are making“ Changes” That we the people want When The Minority wins the majority of the vote Shame on us The minority have a voice but not for the majority

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  • freeweever
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 6:00pm

    Is it just me or does it seem like michael Less was the only one marching using the arm in arm lock for physical assistance ,what a pathetic specimen of a complainer he is, Wonder what michael ohbama thinks of him and his french fry decisions.They should leave all sizes alone and shutup cause sooner or later we will see them. Have a great day America!

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  • davef
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 5:59pm

    Do people still listen to this fat hypocite? I mean look at that multi-millionare walking through the streets, arm in arm, with working men, dressing as an imposter (as if he can’t afford a $2000 suit)…all the while claiming that all money is public money…except, of course, his…

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  • cece959
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 5:59pm

    He’s rallying with his own kind…the “haves”.

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  • keaton
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 5:59pm

    The woman beside Michael in the pink jacket looks like Bill Clinton

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  • jefferson1743
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 5:57pm

    Michael Moore can feed a family of four for a week if he’d skip two or three lunches. Man this guy is the biggest hypocrite

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    • CatB
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 8:50pm

      Biggest .. being the operative word here!

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    • cassandra
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 6:37pm

      He lives in a mansion on Torch Lk. in Mi well I guess capitalism does work hey Mikey.
      he says the money we make is not ours! Well Mikey hand it over

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  • keaton
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 5:57pm

    Did you hear the lie. They are not losing their rights to collectively bargain for their wages.

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    • CatB
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 8:29pm

      No .. they want them to be able to choose whether to be in the union or not .. and to pay their own union dues. MM and his type have ruined Michigan … on to Wisconsin … where next?

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  • Whostolemypig
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 5:55pm

    Just add Michael Moore to the mix and you have a full fledged cartoon.

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  • seeker9
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 5:54pm

    Moore has found a way to take workers money from them!

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  • TMan2020
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 5:54pm

    I don’t understand why this fat guy matters.

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    • Lucy Larue
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 10:39am

      HEY TMAN,
      If you’re having trouble understanding why Mundane Michael matters….,perhaps he does not.

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    • Jim from Maine
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 3:14pm

      HaHa He matters only in his own mind.

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  • hopnmad
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 5:53pm

    pardon me? who’s taking whose money?

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    • 338lapua
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 7:57pm

      Why the overpaid and underworked public employees are throwing “frothing fits” due to a request that they contribute a tiny fraction of the cost of their benefits. The general public(taxpaying that is, not the 10 day residency college students) has reached the end of their patience with these folks…..Oh what fat boy said….I am not sure.

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    • hopnmad
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 8:55pm

      @ 338lapua

      I think union members are being selfish..they won’t look beyond what they can get long enough to see just how bad things are in Wisconsin..total selfishness

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  • End The Fed
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 5:53pm

    And I can hear Moore laughing all the way to the bank with middle class money from his uneducational propaganda films.

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    • felina g
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 6:03pm

      Anyone else notice the left has to keep getting more and more bizarre to feed their own ego`s the same shock value ? Is there a limit ?

      Maybe this is why socialists end up killing millions of people in the end.

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    • End The Fed
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 6:22pm

      FELINA G

      Excellent questions.

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    • tinydd
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 8:36pm

      Yes, yes I’m a millionare ande would be happy to pay more taxes, but I don’t have too, so I don’t, sorry.

      By the way, where’s the “FREE” buffet?

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    • SavvyCowboy
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 10:27am

      Somebody throw a bag of Big Macs at fat mike! He’s the biggest pile of excrement there is. What a Moore-on!!

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  • NickDeringer
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 5:53pm

    It’s a great day for over the hill Marxists. Apparently Michael doesn’t give a rip about grandma and grandpa whose property taxes will be raised if the Unions get their way.

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    • Robert-CA
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 7:08pm

      & all of them thinks that way “I want my pensions & benefits & & & …..& to the hell with the rest”
      Are they thinking for a second about the future generation that won’t have any money left for them to be hired ? No because they know well what’s gonna happen & they want America to start distributing welfare checks to all Americans so that everybody would be equal .
      The feds should start ordering new money printing machines from China to cover the demands of the new communist activists .
      What a shame … ruining a great country like America .

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    • CatB
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 8:28pm

      From what I understand the Governor wants people to be able to “choose” to be in a union .. and the union dues be paid by members and NOT by the government …. OUTRAGOUS isn’t it! These “people” are nothing but a bunch of underachieving cry babies. Let them go out in the “real world” and work for a bit .. perhaps they wouldn’t feel so put upon in “public service”.

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    • thepatriotdave
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:16pm

      Nick,

      Of course he doesn’t. As long as the left keeps paying him in Big Mac‘s he’s their very own pimp.

      http://www.americasteapartynews.com

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    • tierrah
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 1:25am

      Wisconsin’s Lt. General offered a reason to limit collective bargaining for the unions: The teachers’ health care is provided through a company at twice the cost of what the state could procure with another company. Because the union demands the more “cadillac” version of health care with the higher cost company, the state must provide it at taxpayer expense. Believe it or not, teacher union workers feel they have a right to be provided VIAGRA at the expense of the tax payer!!!

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    • dawg of gawd
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 10:23am

      I love the ay Michael makes conservatives heads explode. And Chris Matthew bringing out all the anger and spittle a right wing extremist can muster. Keep it up fellas. They’re obviously scared to death of you. Hey, if you’re taking flak, you’re obviously over the target. Semper Fi.

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    • dawg of gawd
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 10:26am

      Patriot Dave . . .Big Macs? He is fat, a genuine slob, vastly overrated, not nearly as smart as he thinks he is, kind of a coward, a glaring hypocrite, and just an overall drain on the American society. But enough about Chris Christie, Let’s talk about Michael Moore.

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    • BCNU
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 12:30pm

      Nikita Khrushchev predicted (warned us) our current situation this back in 1957 while pounding the podium with his shoe. “Your children’s children shall live under communism without a shot being fired. We will bury you”. These are the “children’s children” he was referencing.

      I have never been able to ascertain the symbolism of striking the podium with his shoe…… anyone know???

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    • Patriotbrotherhood76
      Posted on March 7, 2011 at 12:38pm

      On point Robert! Our parents and Grandparents paid their dues . .oops perhaps not the right word, but the older generation has seen more sacrafice than we have and what about our gandchildren? We should be on our knees weeping and asking forgivness for what we have allowed to happen to their future. Before they took their first breath we have placed them in so much debt and growing each passing day. When the well is dry folks . .ITS DRY! There is no honor in any of this, Unions, politicians alike! Weep for our children for indeed we stand still, while their future burns !!

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  • davidnydcfl
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 5:52pm

    I heard the news pool buffet spread during today’s protest was unbelievable. Not sure if that’s connected to why he showed up.

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    • crackerone
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 6:13pm

      I smell a new documentary.

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    • DVT
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 6:23pm

      Fatboy ain‘t foolin’ anyone. He only showed up because, he heard about the free pizzas that the egyptians were having sent there….Fatboy just had to have himself some of that “free” pizza!

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 6:31pm

      Michael Moore shows up…enough to be said, and pass out the nose plugs to avoid the odor of his foul mouth and doctrine bent on destroying the country.

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    • Cemoto78
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 6:33pm

      The liberal progressive bastion know as Madison along with a rich overweight liberal liar, makes for a great story of total failure for every other resident of Wisconsin. I take it now elections mean nothing cause if you don’t get what you want you just pack up your “Rules for Radicals” books and flee, putting the entire democratic process on hold. Each one of these so-called legislatures should be tarred and feathered then run out of the state. I would say they have willfully vacated their seats and should be replaced immediately.

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    • jhaydeng
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 6:34pm

      This man made movies with rich people’s money! After he made the films he became a rich person! What a hypcrite!

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 6:37pm

      Looks like the union trash is getting weary. They‘re really going to get weary when Wisconsin’s government shuts down at the end of its fiscal year.

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    • jedi.kep
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 6:41pm

      So, we have democrats asking for Walker to come to the table WHILE THEY HIDE IN ANOTHER STATE??? Words simply do not express the venom I feel towards these democratic cowards who ignore the majority will of the people of WI. Someone call Dawg the bounty hunter….Maybe even Boba Fett….

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    • ManThong
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 6:44pm

      I know of a grill joint in Phoenix that is in need of a new spokesman. I think the gig includes free food.
      I wish Mr. Moore would check it out.

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    • chickenfried
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 6:46pm

      Bulbous bloated blowhard believes beer-battered brats beat buttered bagels.

      Marshmallow man Michael Moore marches merrily, making many miss Mass.

      Freaky flabby fatty faces facts…families find fatty’s films fairly fecal.

      I love makin’ alliterative headlines about Mikey…he’s just sooooo revolting to me.

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    • sayangku
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 6:48pm

      The conservatives need to make sure that we are still speaking out through our social networks as the left does. Very important. When the majority does not speak up the minority rules!

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    • Miami
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 6:49pm

      No surprise the fat a$$ commie would be loved by the union thugs. I wonder how the workers would feel in a Cuba like system Moore loves so much…?

      You know the food lines, medicine shortages, goon squads who attack those who speak out and prison for those who stand up to the system. Oh yeah with torture and nothing to do with water but broken bones…

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    • Cemoto78
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 6:59pm

      @ManThong,
      What do you have against us fine folks in Arizona wishing that scumbag to relocate here. For one, we would all suffer from the price increases at all the buffets cause of this one man eating machine. If you want to get him a place to live, I hear there is an opening for a dictator in Libya. Would be a fine place for a lying no-good progressive piece of trash like Moore. With a little luck he’ll take some of his friends with him like Bill Mahar.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 7:06pm

      @AZ Debi ~

      Once again you have made the bell ring with your big hammer! Very interesting, and I thank you!

      @Chicken Little ~
      “Freaky flabby fatty faces facts…families find fatty’s films fairly fecal.”
      Freaky flabby fatty faces facts…families find fatty’s films FULLY fecal.

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    • IntrepidSI
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 7:17pm

      Who is going to go first? Charlie Sheen from one more drug filled weekend or Michael Moore from one more all you can eat buffet weekend?

      Place ya bets, place ya bets.

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    • drbage
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 7:33pm

      This from the man who is suing one of the companies that backed one of his diafilms because he didn’t get a big enough share of the money. In Webster’s, they now can show a picture of him as a visual depiction of the word hypocrite.

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    • Zippo
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 7:33pm

      I find it funny how he condemns the rich “stealing the middle class’ money” while he made his money for the masses of middle class. These idiots don’t recognize hypocrisy even when it is cruelly staring them in the face.

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    • VerySeniorCitizen
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 7:52pm

      Does anyone here know the story about Abraham Lincoln – who JUMPED OUT OF A WINDOW in an attempt to kill a quorum when a vote came up on a Democratic Bill??

      It didn’t work, but – if it was good enough for Abraham Lincoln to try – why not now??

      http://www.mrlincolnandfriends.org/inside.asp?pageID=64&subjectID=5

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    • PeterThePainter
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 7:53pm

      Something I never hear about is all these union employee’s do not pay into Social Security, they have their own pension plans and OPT out……..They will retire with thousands per month for life. I know some that are recieving 100K plus (in retirement)….after working 20-25 years. The poor people that are on Social Security recieve about 1100 per month…………….Oh, there was a 2 percent reduction in Social Security withholding….thats supposed to stimulate the economy….

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    • Cemoto78
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 7:57pm

      This guy has more chins than a Chinese phonebook.

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    • TheBees
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 8:09pm

      I just hope that fat bastard comes to Columbus!

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    • C. Schwehr
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 8:12pm

      Oh, in about a year or so we’ll see another pointless, meanless, highly distorted and spun fiction story about the “brave union workers” blah, blah, blah….and it’ll probably get an Academy Award (as if those mean anything any more) to celebrate the genius of this fat, commie piece of s–t.

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 8:15pm

      Love all the fat jokes, but is that policeman really walking in solidarity with the demonstrators in uniform? I guess that poor joker hasn’t figured out he is being used.

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    • CatB
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 8:24pm

      Now the TEA Party is going to have to pick up ALL of MM pizza boxes .. they are going to need more trash bags.

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    • A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 8:24pm

      “I ask the governor, ‘do your job. Come to the table and speak to Wisconsin workers.’ We agree that fiscally we need to do things differently. We even agree that there are some places where we need to talk about how we negotiate,” Taylor said”

      The reason it‘s not Governor Scott Walker’s job to speak to the Wisconsin workers at the bargaining table is because WE ARE NOT A DEMOCRACY, but a representative Republic. Governors are elected to do a job for a certain amount of time, after which someone else may be voted in.

      Unless what he’s saying is that Walker is violating unalienable rights, in which case he must attend to the matter.

      But the argument offered by the Left with regard to collective bargaining, is that Walker is prohibiting workers from doing so. This is completely false, and it takes a skewed view of unalienable rights to think it’s true.

      See, NO ONE is prohibiting workers – either in the public or private sector – from joining with others in one voice to make their case that they ought to have the right, as a group, to demand certain things of their employers (in the case of the public sector, that’s the taxpayer).

      What the Wisconsin Leftist protesters fail to realize is that since rights belong to the individual – and the Constitution recognizes this – and since we are a Constitutional Republic, America does not recognize group rights.

      You can join with, and protest, with whoever you want, and however many people you want, and unless you go through the process our Constitutional Republic spells out for recalls to get someone else in office – and again, unless Walker is violating the Constitution (which he’s not) – the amount of people you attempt to collectively bargain along side with means absolutely nothing.

      Of course the flip side of this issue is that a single person ought to be enough to make the case that a law is unConstitutional, and the government must then consider that law unenforceable – all because truth does not depend on the amount of people saying it.

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    • CrazyJ
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 8:32pm

      “we’ll be at the mercy of the administration…” welcome to having a real job. Its called being accountable.

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    • Zippo
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 8:34pm

      C. SCHWEHR

      Oh, in about a year or so we’ll see another pointless, meanless, highly distorted and spun fiction story about the “brave union workers” blah, blah, blah….and it’ll probably get an Academy Award (as if those mean anything any more) to celebrate the genius of this fat, commie piece of s–t.
      =================================================================

      He’ll call it BOOM! Unions!

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    • Cymry
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 8:46pm

      I am very closely related to one of the members of the elite progressive brain trust (God rest his soul) and all I heard from that side of the family was socialist new world order. liberalism/socialism/progressive ideals are horrible chronic conditions that destroy those who are afflicted.

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    • Rice Water
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 8:46pm

      Please, explain to me how collective bargaining rights will close “Wisonsin” (sic)’s budget deficit.

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    • Mannax
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:16pm

      Rice Water, it is simple really. Sure the unions will be willing to concede pay cuts and paying more for their medical and retirement funds this year, however, when the contracts are up for renewal in a year or two, they will hold the state hostage for reinstatement of the benefits that they lost because the budget has been fixed (or at least we hope it will be) and the state will have to give into their demands or all of the mindless union workers will go on strike because their union boss said to. By limiting their ability to bargain to just salaries (within sane limits) they ensure that the unions ability to bankrupt the state is limited.

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    • Republic1776
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:18pm

      Mr. Moore you have it wrong. The unions have overreached not the wealthy. The unions have created an atmosphere where state workers are given benefits beyond what you would find in the private sector. This has not only resulted in extreme burdens on the tax payers of WI, but has had a helping hand in our 3.6 billion dollar short-fall. The teachers know the gravey train is over. So the unions use the state workers anger to further their own agenda. Hold firm Governor Walker!! You have tremendous support!!!!

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    • ManThong
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:32pm

      @Cemoto78
      No offense meant. Sure you wouldn’t want him? He might be good for some shade.

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    • silentwatcher
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:09pm

      If Moore can get some money stuffed in his pocket,,,he’ll be there. He won‘t heft his fat arse off his recliner unless there’s something in it for him. He’s gotten even fatter with the money received for demonstrtating his hypocritical practices.

      But ok,,,cause if the economy ever crashes because of the prog-trogs policies,,,,he’s gonna be on a crash diet and will have to actually work a job. Then we’ll see how long it takes for someone to cave his face in when he spouts his discontent for the socialist society.

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    • Rice Water
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:11pm

      Mannax, if that’s the case, then they should be be negotiating salaries, not their right to negotiate salaries.

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    • Laus Deo
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:19pm

      Check it out!! It’s the Grand Wizard of Douche Baggery!

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    • TXPilot
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:23pm

      Its all fun and good times, til Michael Moore gets hungry and someone gets eaten.

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    • banjarmon
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:35pm

      jessie jackson & michael more …I think I just hurt my computer with thoes two. Put them on the no fly list… at 40,000 ft over the Atlantic…no shut …here’s the back door.

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    • freeus
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:36pm

      Michael Moore is nothing more than a scum bag who operates the same way as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton in order to get media attention. He just shows up where the cameras are because otherwise this loser would be sitting home in front of the TV watching Fox and eating himself into oblivion.

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    • Zippo
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:41pm

      Rice Water,

      Thats the point, part of the Collective Bargaining rights that the unions in Wi has right now there is no cap on the pay. Part of the legislation removing collective bargaining still allows them to negotiate their pay raises but in line with the price index (basically inflation rate).

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    • right-wing-waco
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 11:51pm

      Why aren’t the protesters angry at him for being rich? Oh yea, he‘s a lib and it’s ok to be rich and liberal.

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    • Chrono_Sleuth
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 3:57am

      @AZDEBI and A DOCTOR’S LABOR IS NOT MY RIGHT

      Great stuff guys, kind of like poetry in motion. However, Azdebi, I do have to say, we have no clue just how much overall control radicals have. That said, without going into a rant on reality of our system, the rising prices due to gouging, the current spin on the economic upturn as though none of the world’s problems will stop our country from steam rolling to prosperity, and other details…I suppose the best thing is to hold our heads up high and maintain that positive attitude. As they say, if you play a game, the winner is usually decided on the outset of the game, not during it. If we can maintain a positive stance and attitude we can do this, we can break through, we can elect enough fiscally conservative minded people and a new President to hopefully turn our country around to true prosperity.

      Anyway, I have a theory about the left. I don’t think they are all stupid and foolish. I believe many of them know full well the consequences of their actions and desires, knowing the radical ends of a world run solely by them, controlled entirely by them, with hand-picked power circles will ensure anywhere from a Utopia (for the dreamers) to a world that perpetually allows them to remain in power (like all wannabe dictators dream).

      I believe Fatty McFatterson is one of those who is fully aware of the reality of things, and sees himself as in a position of power that he does not want to give up. He rather enjoys spending other people’s money, and seems to love making his own.

      It really is sad how many people they’ve duped into following them, especially when Moore has been known to criticize the police directly, but hey, as many wise men have stated, those desperate for power or to keep what they feel is theirs, or what will be stolen will suffer working with any enemy so long as their cause runs parallel.

      You would think they might…check on what Collective Bargaining really is: Price Gouging.

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    • rodamaa
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 5:21am

      Taylor said: do your job!! Are you kidding!! How about you socialist tyrant do yours instead of walking out on the democratic process which you clearly lost last November.

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    • cessna152
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 7:29am

      Title should read:
      The Blob attacks Wisconsin…

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    • Uncle Crusty
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 9:37am

      All the little piggies were out that day, especially the fattest piggie of them all – hey Mike you are rich enough, why not pay all our taxes for us? oh, that’s right you hate capitalism…

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    • Golden_Showers_of_Freedom
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 9:40am

      If that was the case Chris Christie would have surely waddled his way to Wisconsin to get ahead of Moore. That man clearly does not miss a meal, most of which is expensed to the tax payers I assume.

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    • nothingbuthetruth
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 9:42am

      The unions, Mikey Moor, the left , democRATS and obama are fighting the taxpayers. Their fight isnt against Walker, but they want u to think that. It fits their template, but they are truely fighting each and every one of us. Unions get billions in dues, what a bunch of union non-worker fools

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    • pmacres
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 9:55am

      Explain to me, why when the dems were is charge they rammed thru bills without reading and understanding them, In wisconsin the republicans are in charge, Deal with it dems,, we did

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    • tifosa
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 10:21am

      Less than two minutes of a 1/2hr speech with no link…guess the editors know their audience. Interesting article in Time magazine (maybe has one or two more readers than the blaze does) regarding Scott Walker’s top 20 lies. And the remarks about his weight? Really?

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    • SavvyCowboy
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 10:23am

      fat mike moore-on needs to head to North Korea on the first thing smokin’!! If that fat rich pig wants to “take from the rich” why doesn’t this huge smelly pile of excrement liquidate his entire estate and give it all to the poor? I guarantee you michael food buffet moore-on would love to see all “rich people” deposed of their hard earned money but leave his stash alone!

      Typicial hollyweird leftist.

      BTW – betcha fat mike ate 39 brats and 7 pounds of cheese while he was in wisKonsin.

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    • taskmaster78
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 10:41am

      I can’t help myself: put a wig and lipstick, red in color, and he looks like every ones fat aunt. My God what is it with this man, I thought he just got out of the fat farm a month ago.

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    • Bluebonnet
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 10:53am

      I thought FAT BOY referred to the A-bomb. Watch out Madison, if he blows up, he’ll take you with him. If we had Right to Work laws, people who want to support unions are free to do so, while the intelligent people want their freedom and rights to make their own decisions, like who their money supports in national elections. Most important to me is being able to fire bad teachers. Test scores have been going down yearly while you keep the inept teachers at work damaging your kids. Duh? Expecting the public to pay their pensions is unforgivable. We pay our own, so should they.

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    • Marcia
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 11:25am

      I’m sorry, but being arm in arm with Michael Moore CAN’T be good for anything.

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    • Marcobob69
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 11:32am

      That has to be the reason THUNDER GUT showed up. For somebody that hates Capitalism so much, he sure does rake in the $$$!! Can you say Liberal left loon!!! I KNEW you could! Sickening.

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    • TheLascone
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 11:54am

      Everytime there is a problem this clown shows up ….
      http://www.flickr.com/photos/23630227@N06/5393297667/in/photostream/

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    • lisalake
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 12:16pm

      Big fat dumb-a** slob.

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    • Curioso
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 2:24pm

      You know what bothers me most is the ingratitude of these wrong thinking people. They live in the best country in the world and have the best of everything imaginable and yet they act like spoiled children that did not get the $1000 toy. They have the best safest working conditions in the world and make more money and get better benefits than 90% of the whole world. What is the matter with these people.

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    • WTH
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 2:45pm

      Maybe if Michael would walk with all the protesters in all the states he would have an good exercise program. That is probably the most he has walked in long long time. I hope Michael donated all of his money to the unions in Wisconsin to show that the U.S. isn’t broke.

      One thing is for sure and that is if something is broke Michael Moore sure as hell won’t be able to fix it.

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    • _waTson_
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 2:50pm

      Sorry, I try to keep my thoughts out of anger and lean toward tolerance but after a week of this nut job in the news, I’ve had it so here it is Mike Moore

      Hey Mike, since you don’t believe RICH PEOPLE HAVE A RIGHT TO THEIR MONEY .. here’s my suggestion. why don’t you shut your fat dumbass up and donate all yours to the people. Poof, temporary bandaid.

      P.S. Since you can barely walk your fat ass down the street put a little aside for your heart surgery so you don’t have to rely upon a failed obama healthcare. Thanks.

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    • Oil_Robb
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 3:09pm

      An uglier version of Al Sharpton…if thats possible….why are Liberals all so UGLY?

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    • michael48
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 8:23pm

      sure will be funny to see this FatA$$ hypocrite in a BURKHA….tell him the Hollowood crowds going to be in NYC protesting King’s investigation of Rad Rag Headism…a pink Burkha should be a wise display…HEADLESS of course…

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    • Navymommy
      Posted on March 7, 2011 at 8:58am

      Mr. Moore, where’s my check? You didn’t ask me if you could spend my money travelling to WI.

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    • pajamash
      Posted on March 7, 2011 at 11:33am

      Hey! Two people over to the left of Micheal Moore, isn’t that the same firefighter that was on with Ed Schultz? If so, he sure is working his 15 minutes of fame.

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    • independentvoteril
      Posted on March 7, 2011 at 11:40am

      Again I love reading about idiots.. DO the people who are in the streets NOT realize FAT BOY is RICH.. he LOVES capitalism.. he could care LESS about them…. I NEVER realized what a bunch of USEFUL IDIOTS American people are when it comes to the FAT BOY types.. what a joke.. I have a cousin who watched his last documentary and she was writing on her FB .. how great he was etc.. her friends were shocked.. and tried to talk her out of thinking the way she was.. so I posted one little paragraph on her wall.. “IF Cuba and all the other communist countries are so GREAT explain WHY no one is trying to escape AMERICA to go to them..”?..HOWEVER ..People are risking their lives to come here..? WELL she has since changed her mind.. after admitting she was caught up in the mob mentality.. some American‘s just don’t THINK unless you make them..

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    • Patriotbrotherhood76
      Posted on March 7, 2011 at 12:00pm

      The blind, leading the blind ! Mr. Moore is rich, but it is always indeed . .DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO ! To concern one’s self with such people, only serves to encourage their stupidity ! If he truly believes in what he speaks . .dump the cash and become poor and then he may perhaps, speak from a more level position.

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    • russ1944
      Posted on March 7, 2011 at 2:47pm

      No, that Michael you smell!

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on March 7, 2011 at 4:01pm

      So the unions are basicly sayinmg they would sign a pact with a Demon. A big fat bloated hypocritic,long winded anti american demon to keep their right to extort tax dollars from their public employers.

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    • HUGGINGMYBABIES
      Posted on March 7, 2011 at 8:13pm

      Well he certainly fits in with the general obese landscape we have. I guess that also explains WHY Jesse showed up at my step daughter’s school…….Lena’s son attends it as well……it was the only school he went to under the guise of a question and answer session on unions, civil rights, etc. Its a single classroom in an all but abandon inner city school that houses businesses like Americorps. All she came away with was that he marched with Martin Luther King and was arrested. Guess she didn’t get the mandated public school union indoctrination.

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    • sleazyhippo
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 5:48pm

      BECK IS A CARD-CARRYING AFL-CIO UNION MEMBER
      AlterNet / By Ted Cox February 26, 2011
      While Glenn Beck, Hannity, O’Reilly and Limbaugh have been railing against union workers in Wisconsin, all belong to an AFL-CIO union. They, along with Charlie sheen, Kieth Olberman and Brit Hume belong to the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) union, which is the AFL-CIO affiliate for television and broadcast workers. They all voted in the Los Angeles 2010 general ballot Election 1281001 (available on-line) and all receive collective bargaining benefits and minimum salary rights.
      A report voted to the front page of Reddit Friday claimed that Hannity, Limbaugh and O’Reilly were union members, as well as Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin and Ann Coulter. Right-wing blogger Michelle Malkin – who, for tax purposes is only a “frequent guest” on the network, is not a member of the union.

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